Ace of Spades HQ

March 26, 2014

Flyin' Car?
— Ace

This story is a year old, but I missed it last time. I don't know how I came across it now.

The bad news: As you can tell from the video below, this isn't even a prototype yet. All the pictures are mock-ups, and the video is CGI. The actual plane, the Terrafugia TF-X (the X stands for "Awesome"), is ten years away.

The good news: The company has made flyin' cars before, or, actually, "roadable aircraft," which are just planes that can drive on a highway. I don't really count these as a flyin' car, because, well, they look like planes even when they're on the ground. But the company is at least putting out product.

They've also got a contract from DARPA to make a "flying Humvee" so they can't be total morons.

Better news: the proposed vehicle, in the video below, is also a roadable aircraft, but it looks a bit more like a car to me, so I'm going to count it as an odd-looking and early-model genuine flyin' car.

Even better news: It's a VTOL so you can skip the trip to the airport. The ability to take off from anywhere -- not just an airstrip -- is really a must-have for me, as far as my own flyin' car checklist. If you have to drive to an airport (or have some other convenient airstrip to take off from and land on), then what's the point of having a roadable aircraft? You can just as easily park a car at the airport and then fly your plane.

It doesn't really seem to give the driver that freedom that a real flyin' car does -- the ability to literally just pull off the road and take off into the sky on a whim. Or to land wherever he likes (within reason) by his destination and drive the rest of the way there.

The TF-X, if it is ever made, will cost probably a half a million dollars, if not more.

A Bonus Is This Something? under the fold.

Is This Something? Hey, how about a movie about one of the first superheroes ever.

If I remember right, this cartoon made him more explicitly a comic-book superhero, giving him a magic ring that transformed him from Zero to Hero.

By the way I hated that cartoon. But that theme song runs through my head on occasion.

My life is awful.

Posted by: Ace at 03:00 PM | Comments (245)
Post contains 407 words, total size 3 kb.

1 They've also got a contract from DARPA to make a "flying Humvee" so they can't be total morons.

Give them a chance.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 03:01 PM (doBIb)

2 Oh, and first!

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 03:01 PM (doBIb)

3 Never saw that Hercules cartoon before.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 03:02 PM (zqvg6)

4 Sometimes, when you're gonna mail it in, just walk by the mailbox.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 03:02 PM (ZshNr)

5 Never saw that Hercules cartoon before.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 07:02 PM (zqvg6)

Played all the time where I grew up.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 03:02 PM (doBIb)

6 Herculeees! Herculeees! Herculeees!

Posted by: Mama Klump at March 26, 2014 03:03 PM (08jH8)

7 Out: Flying Tomahawks
In: Flying Humvees

Posted by: SCOAMF at March 26, 2014 03:04 PM (08jH8)

8 By the way I hated that cartoon. But that theme song runs through my head on occasion.

My life is awful.

How can you hate someone that can shoot out the sun? With a longbow?

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 03:05 PM (doBIb)

9 Does it make that "bleeble bleeble bleeble" sound like George Jetson's flying car. That's a dealbreaker if it doesn't.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 03:05 PM (0HooB)

10 It's 2014. Where the fuck is my flying car?

Posted by: 1962 at March 26, 2014 03:05 PM (Zs83Q)

11 How are they going to keep flying cars from crashing into each other? Not only will the drivers/occupants will be killed but so will the people on the ground hit by flying debris.

Posted by: Pug-De-Da! at March 26, 2014 03:06 PM (vFh9Q)

12 There's got to be a worse cartoon theme song out there that you could have going through your head ace. So count yourself lucky. Captain Planet perhaps?

Posted by: Buzzion at March 26, 2014 03:07 PM (z/Ubi)

13 How are they going to keep flying cars from crashing into each other? Not only will the drivers/occupants will be killed but so will the people on the ground hit by flying debris.

Easy solution to all that.

High-speed flying rail.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 03:07 PM (doBIb)

14 I kind of love The Rock, so I'm saying yes, it's a thing. Also, I'm making nutella brownies. I'll share the recipe. 1 1/4 cup Nutella 2 eggs 1/2 cup flour. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes in a 9 x 9 pan. The end. You're welcome.

Posted by: Lauren at March 26, 2014 03:07 PM (hFL/3)

15 Apparently they've also defeated thermodynamics. The engine recharges the batteries. Dude! No gas needed.

Posted by: pep at March 26, 2014 03:08 PM (4nR9/)

16 According to "Back To The Future" they got nine more months to make it for the holiday.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 03:08 PM (30eLQ)

17 My life is awful. Posted by: Ace at 07:00 PM Welcome to the Horde.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 03:08 PM (GEICT)

18 The ability to take off from anywhere -- not just an airstrip -- is really a must-have for me, as far as my own flyin' car checklist. Thousand Oaks and some place in FL -- they have homes built along a landing strip so everyone can come and go on their own private jets. I wonder how they cut down on the noise?

Posted by: Pug-De-Da! at March 26, 2014 03:09 PM (vFh9Q)

19 Great! Now the FAA and the DMV will combine forces.... :-\

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2014 03:09 PM (60Vyp)

20 "12 There's got to be a worse cartoon theme song out there that you could have going through your head ace. So count yourself lucky. " ...And Godzooooookie

Posted by: Godzilla at March 26, 2014 03:09 PM (hFL/3)

21 It apparently only flies inside a holodeck.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 03:09 PM (0HooB)

22 Welcome to the Horde. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 07:08 PM (GEICT) We're all here for a reason. Now if you'll excuse me I have a bottle of vodka to finish off.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 03:09 PM (HDwDg)

23 The Baltics part seems crazy, but I'm not gonna be shocked if Putin takes all of eastern and southern Ukraine, uniting with Transdniestria, taking Odessa, and leaving Ukraine a land-locked rump state. CNN NationalSecurity ‏@NatSecCNN U.S. intel assessement: greater likelihood Russia will enter eastern Ukraine http://wp.me/p1xuqq-6p8 The buildup is seen to be reminiscent of MoscowÂ’s military moves before it went into Chechnya and Georgia in both numbers of units and their capabilities. U.S. military and intelligence officials have briefed Congress on the assessment. As a result, Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee late Wednesday sent a classified letter to the White House expressing concern about unfolding developments. An unclassified version obtained by CNN said committee members feel Â“urgency and alarm, based on new information in the committeeÂ’s possession.Â” The committee said there was Â“deep apprehension that Moscow may invade eastern and southern Ukraine, pressing west to Transdniestria and also seek land grabs in the Baltics.Â” Transdniestria is a separatist region of Moldova.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 26, 2014 03:09 PM (ZPrif)

24 16 According to "Back To The Future" they got nine more months to make it for the holiday. Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 07:08 PM (30eLQ) Are the cubs supposed to win the series this year or next year according to that?

Posted by: Buzzion at March 26, 2014 03:09 PM (z/Ubi)

25 Do the air bags work? Asking for a friend. Really I am.

Posted by: Killerdog at March 26, 2014 03:10 PM (bwVNm)

26 http://tinyurl.com/ldq97uz

http://tinyurl.com/kgxq3j8

http://tinyurl.com/kwm6mvn

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:11 PM (MNq6o)

27 Captain Planet was a filthy Commie.

Posted by: Lauren at March 26, 2014 03:11 PM (hFL/3)

28 But that theme song runs through my head on occasion. *********** Wow that song is bad.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 03:12 PM (RJMhd)

29 A flying MRAP would be more impressive.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at March 26, 2014 03:12 PM (M5T54)

30 The problem for the Baltics is their Russians, but also Kaliningrad. Exclaves suck and always cause problems. Russia wants a land bridge to Kaliningrad, but the Baltics are in the way. This is also why we should take western canada. Land bridge to Alaska.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 26, 2014 03:12 PM (ZPrif)

31 Studebaker didn't make a flying car.

They made two, couple of decades apart. One's in the Air and Space Museum.

And yet, Studebaker is the punch line of a government retirement guaranty joke. It's the synonym for Old, Tired, and Out of Style. They (finally) came to the realization that there wasn't much future in making cars, and their conscious de-coupling from that business makes everybody say "they went out of business," which they didn't.

And that is my opinion of the American buying public, right there. We had them, you didn't want them, and now you want to know where they are. As Christ said, suffer the little bitches.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 26, 2014 03:12 PM (xq1UY)

32 CNN NationalSecurity ‏@NatSecCNN U.S. intel assessement: greater likelihood Russia will enter eastern Ukraine http://wp.me/p1xuqq-6p8 ********* Wow--who the HELL didn't see that one coming? Only the Light Bringer?

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 03:13 PM (RJMhd)

33 Hercules needs to get his own damn hairstyle.

Posted by: Superman at March 26, 2014 03:13 PM (4nR9/)

34 My life is awful. Have some Kaboom, kid. It won't help. It just makes you accept it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2014 03:14 PM (oFCZn)

35 I doubt I've heard that song in 40-45 years, but I remembered the lyrics immediately.

Posted by: pep at March 26, 2014 03:14 PM (4nR9/)

36 30 The problem for the Baltics is their Russians, but also Kaliningrad. Exclaves suck and always cause problems. Russia wants a land bridge to Kaliningrad, but the Baltics are in the way. This is also why we should take western canada. Land bridge to Alaska. Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 26, 2014 07:12 PM (ZPrif) ************* Canada could take Maine about as legally as Putin did Crimea--but who would want it?

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 03:14 PM (RJMhd)

37 They'll be hearing from my lawyers!

Posted by: Matt Trakker at March 26, 2014 03:14 PM (b6nAI)

38 Man that song is sooooo.... METRO!

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 03:15 PM (RJMhd)

39 OT: Bad day for some dems...

Three dems arrested today. Charlotte mayor, CA State Senator and a NY Assemblyman.

See post 26 for the fucking links, goddammit. What the fuck. You can't even copy and paste shit around here anymore without getting that fucking error message?

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:15 PM (MNq6o)

40 Now if you'll excuse me I have a bottle of vodka to finish off. I'm polishing off this bottle of JB Maple. My life sorta sucks too. I try not to think about it. Somehow, I managed to piss off God before I was born.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 03:15 PM (0HooB)

41 Automated cars will be good for the future of conservatives. Robo-cars are good for exurban and suburban living. Makes commutes more tolerable. Robo-cars will increase alcohol consumption. Robo-cars will severely hurt mass transit. Robo-cars will crush radio. People will watch TV in their robo-cars instead. People only listen to the radio in the car cause they have to watch the road. Robo-cars will increase Sprawl. Sprawl is good.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 26, 2014 03:15 PM (ZPrif)

42 Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 07:15 PM (MNq6o) Mayor from a City around here is being impeached as well. Apparently among other things she's accused of unilaterally raising her salary. Democrat (or at least that what I'm guessing based on the demographics of the area.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 03:16 PM (HDwDg)

43 I should have hired Hercules to clean my bathroom last weekend.

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 03:17 PM (sdi6R)

44 38 Man that song is sooooo....

METRO!

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Posted by: Iron thighs at March 26, 2014 03:17 PM (4nR9/)

45 The hero who can not be defeated.

No matter what you do, he just keeps coming back

He is the Mighty Herpules.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 26, 2014 03:17 PM (0AKks)

46 But, is it a plug-in, or a hybrid?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 03:17 PM (aDwsi)

47 Mayor from a City around here is being impeached as well.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!)

Where is that?

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:17 PM (MNq6o)

48 Just imagine the accidents that will happen with these things. I picture a market for flying meatwagons with shovels for cleanup. Claim your territory right now.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 26, 2014 03:18 PM (jucos)

49 I'll take a flying fuck.

not really, just kidding, tee hee.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 26, 2014 03:18 PM (W5iHt)

50 44 38
Man that song is sooooo....

METRO!

I have no idea what you're talking about.
Posted by: Iron thighs

I know, right?

Posted by: Diamond penis at March 26, 2014 03:18 PM (4nR9/)

51 I don't know how I came across it now. Searched 'Van+Lines' instead of 'Tan+Lines'?

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 03:18 PM (Wz69H)

52 43 I should have hired Hercules to clean my bathroom last weekend. Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 07:17 PM (sdi6R) I wonder how he'd do with dryer vents?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 26, 2014 03:19 PM (oFCZn)

53 I hated that cartoon too. Especially that little goat boy. I used to wonder why Herc kept him around. Now I think I understand why.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 03:19 PM (JdEZJ)

54 I'm polishing off this bottle of JB Maple. ************** omg--that sounds awful. I get sick at one sniff of Southern Comfort. *BARF*

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 03:19 PM (RJMhd)

55 10 It's 2014. Where the fuck is my flying car? Posted by: 1962 at March 26, 2014 07:05 PM (Zs83Q) I'm pretty sure I was promised moving sidewalks by now.

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 03:19 PM (sdi6R)

56 Eh, I think this cartoon theme is much worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU2Jkc1cHrE

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at March 26, 2014 03:19 PM (M5T54)

57 Dwayne is looking good.

Posted by: huerfano at March 26, 2014 03:19 PM (bAGA/)

58 My life is awful. I wouldn't trade with you.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 03:20 PM (Wz69H)

59 This is also why we should take western canada. Land bridge to Alaska. If it werenÂ’t for you right-wingers, weÂ’d still have a land bridge to Hawaii.

Posted by: Senator Booker at March 26, 2014 03:20 PM (WX3R9)

60 He is the Mighty Herpules.

And his lovely Greek wife, Hepatitis.

Posted by: pep at March 26, 2014 03:21 PM (4nR9/)

61 Flying car meh. I've been promised those for 50 years. I'd settle for a Carrera.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 03:21 PM (JdEZJ)

62 When that baby hits 88 mph, you're going to see some serious shit.

Posted by: Doc Brown at March 26, 2014 03:21 PM (cTgyY)

63 Obama is a SCOAMF. Obama is a SCOAMF.

Posted by: Newton at March 26, 2014 03:21 PM (tiOTz)

64 Wow, that's a blast from the past, Ace. I remember the Hercules cartoon being paired back to back with Samson and Goliath in the early mornings before I left for school. That was another travesty by Hanna-Barbera in the late 60s.

Posted by: B at March 26, 2014 03:21 PM (6iEQd)

65 omg--that sounds awful. It's a liqueur, 70 proof, good over ice with a Guinness chaser, which I also just happen to have. Alcohol: the cause of, and cure for, all of life's problems.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 03:22 PM (0HooB)

66 Costanza! The "other" Russian argument is that the Rus are entitled to Ukraine, because some of the most important battles in Russian history took place on Ukrainian soil, and you (World) can't expect them to give that up.

So the US gets Nova Scotia and Quebec tomorrow morning, because the French and Indian War is more recent than the Russian battles, and sure was important. The Philippines and Cuba are used to having anxious moments. They'll be having some now.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 26, 2014 03:22 PM (xq1UY)

67 Hercules was a pussy. There's no need to fear, Underdog is here.

Posted by: Roy at March 26, 2014 03:22 PM (tiOTz)

68 That was another travesty by Hanna-Barbera in the late 60s.

HB may have lost a step by then, but you can't deny the greatness that was Quick Draw McGraw.

Posted by: pep at March 26, 2014 03:22 PM (4nR9/)

69 The committee said there was Â“deep apprehension that Moscow may invade eastern and southern Ukraine, pressing west to Transdniestria and also seek land grabs in the Baltics.Â”
Transdniestria is a separatist region of Moldova.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 26, 2014 07:09 PM (ZPrif)

In other words, all the countries who had the decency to not expel or ethnically cleanse their Russian populations after the Soviet collapse are going to lose territory. And most of those Russians were moved in after the original inhabitants were forcibly relocated, or in the case of Ukraine, murdered in a monstrous act of genocide, so Russia can take their bullshit propaganda about protecting ethnic Russians from imaginary Nazi boogeymen and shove it up their ass.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at March 26, 2014 03:23 PM (KSjsb)

70 Crappy driving & crappy flying for $500,000? Buy a cheap car and a cheap plane $40,000.

Posted by: db at March 26, 2014 03:23 PM (+GH2F)

71 Speedy Gonzales was undocumented.

Posted by: Roy at March 26, 2014 03:23 PM (tiOTz)

72 Hercules was a pussy.

There's no need to fear, Underdog is here.

Super Chicken FTW.

http://youtu.be/FKss2pBYQ6Y

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 26, 2014 03:23 PM (0AKks)

73 Is that Johnny Mathis singing that theme song?

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2014 03:24 PM (oMKp3)

74 66 Costanza! The "other" Russian argument is that the Rus are entitled to Ukraine, because some of the most important battles in Russian history took place on Ukrainian soil, and you (World) can't expect them to give that up.

So the US gets Nova Scotia and Quebec tomorrow morning, because the French and Indian War is more recent than the Russian battles, and sure was important. The Philippines and Cuba are used to having anxious moments. They'll be having some now.

I'm pretty sure that also entitles us to Normandy and Tokyo. Yay!

Posted by: pep at March 26, 2014 03:24 PM (4nR9/)

75 66 Costanza! The "other" Russian argument is that the Rus are entitled to Ukraine, because some of the most important battles in Russian history took place on Ukrainian soil, and you (World) can't expect them to give that up. Well, Meh-hee-coh, your days as an independent state are numbered...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 26, 2014 03:24 PM (HsTG8)

76 Hercules is really the story of Obama.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 03:24 PM (JdEZJ)

77 Chicken Boo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUO32EGdEpg

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 03:24 PM (Wz69H)

78 Zero my hero.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 03:25 PM (JdEZJ)

79 There's no need to fear, Underdog is here. How can a shoe-shine boy afford a never-ending supply of coke pills?

Posted by: Sweet Polly at March 26, 2014 03:25 PM (WX3R9)

80 Rocky and Bullwinkle. Game, set and match.

Posted by: pep at March 26, 2014 03:25 PM (4nR9/)

81 Mentioning Underdog is racist, because shoeshine boy.

Posted by: M Dowd at March 26, 2014 03:25 PM (W5iHt)

82 What? Sid and Marty Krofft get no love? It doesn't get much better than The Bugaloos or H.R. Pufnstuff..... Get it? Puff and Stuff? Smack smack smack... THAT'S MY SKULL!

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 26, 2014 03:25 PM (jucos)

83 65 omg--that sounds awful. It's a liqueur, 70 proof, good over ice with a Guinness chaser, which I also just happen to have. Alcohol: the cause of, and cure for, all of life's problems. Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 26, 2014 07:22 PM (0HooB) ************ It's a liqueur? Okay--that's a little better. Drambuie next time. I think the worst liqueur is that Galliano crap they but in Golden Cadillacs...*yelch* Now there's a "flying" car in anyone 's future.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 03:25 PM (RJMhd)

84 Hey! I was supposed to have my flying car 14 frickin' years ago. What's the delay?

Posted by: drill_thrawl at March 26, 2014 03:26 PM (rdiUQ)

85 they *put* in Golden Cadillacs.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 03:26 PM (RJMhd)

86 80 Rocky and Bullwinkle. Game, set and match. Posted by: pep at March 26, 2014 07:25 PM (4nR9/) That show really is the gold standard.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2014 03:26 PM (oMKp3)

87 Wow, that's a blast from the past, Ace. I remember the Hercules cartoon being paired back to back with Samson and Goliath in the early mornings before I left for school. That was another travesty by Hanna-Barbera in the late 60s.
Posted by: B

As a child, your life sucked. Hope it got better later on. We got The Three Stooges before school. Great way to start the day.

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:27 PM (MNq6o)

88 Flying cars - now I got to look out for imbeciles falling from the sky on my drive.

Thanks guys.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Perfidy and Accusations at the Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2014 03:27 PM (gmoEG)

89 Avery Brooks agrees with me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzm6pvHPSGo

Posted by: drill_thrawl at March 26, 2014 03:28 PM (rdiUQ)

90 The bad guy on Underdog grated on me so bad I couldn't watch. I couldn't stand his voice.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 03:28 PM (JdEZJ)

91 Wow, I'm shocked that I can still remember a third of the words and all of the Melody to the old Herc cartoon. I haven't thought about that in years. And if that isn't Johnny Mathis singing the song, it's the best impression I've ever heard.

Posted by: Melissa Harris-Perry at March 26, 2014 03:28 PM (gBnkX)

92 Obama is totally going to buy me one of those.

Posted by: MTF at March 26, 2014 03:28 PM (B+HTd)

93 off tampon-eared sock

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 26, 2014 03:29 PM (gBnkX)

94 It's Jim Beam. With Maple syrup. And if it's anything like Crown Royal Maple, it's fucking awful.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 03:29 PM (GEICT)

95 Tim Wilson nailed it on the flying 'stuff' we were promised. Too lazy to tinyurl a YouTube, but... "Where the Fcuk is My Jetpack?!?"

Posted by: Spun and Murky at March 26, 2014 03:30 PM (4DCSq)

96
As a child, your life sucked. Hope it got better later on. We got The Three Stooges before school. Great way to start the day.
***

Heh. We got the Stooges on the weekends along with Abbott and Costello. It's a shame that kids today don't get to experience the horror of only three channels.

Posted by: B at March 26, 2014 03:30 PM (6iEQd)

97 Caaall for Super Chicken! Bacaw!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y

I can't believe we used to watch that crap.

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:30 PM (MNq6o)

98 That terrafugia looks like the name sounds, like some kind of mutant mudfish. It's nice to experiment ahead of the technological curve, too many people try to *sell* ahead of it, too.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 03:30 PM (qyfb5)

99 I try not to think about it. Somehow, I managed to piss off God before I was born. Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 26, 2014 07:15 PM (0HooB) I try to spend lots of time not thinking about it either. But every so often I'm reminded that I'm heading down a career path of a field that is actively trying to eject me. And my attempts to return to my old career path are going poorly as well. But here's the to the future of my field, which apparently is going to be bullshit papers about bullshit topics that I want nothing to do with. :drinks:

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 03:30 PM (HDwDg)

100 I was also under the impression that flying cars would look badass. That one is seriously heterosexually-challenged.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 26, 2014 03:31 PM (gBnkX)

101 meet george jetson, his boy roy, daughter judy, jane his wife.

how long ago were we to have flying cars?

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 03:32 PM (nqBYe)

102 It's a shame that kids today don't get to experience the horror of only three channels.
Posted by: B

Or the drudgery of being your parents remote control. "Change the channel. Put it back. Wait there. No, put it back.... "

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:32 PM (MNq6o)

103 Also we're rockin' out over Yee getting arrested. Allegations include fraud, illegal gun trafficking, gun trafficking to gangs, gun trafficking to terrorist cells, and a murder-for-hire scheme. And that's only part of the list, I'm expecting to find kiddie porn or kidnapping teenage girls for Mexican Cartels in there at some point.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 03:32 PM (qyfb5)

104 George of the Jungle - the original and not that how-awful POS movie of recent years.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 26, 2014 03:33 PM (HsTG8)

105 From the Wiki:

The theme music is credited to Winston Sharples (as Win Sharples) who spent more than two decades at Paramount Pictures composing background music for the "Superman" and "Popeye" theatrical cartoons produced by the Fliescher brothers. However, the transformative "ring anthem" frequently used as Hercules slips on the ring given him by Zeus, along with several bridges of music used throughout episodes, are taken from the 1954 film The Black Shield of Falworth, the music credited to Joseph Gershenson but really composed by Hans Salter, Herman Stein and Frank Skinner, the long time in-house film composer for Universal Studios.

Posted by: B at March 26, 2014 03:33 PM (6iEQd)

106 Now I want a domestic robot like Rosie. Yeah, I watched a lot of Jetsons growing up.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 03:33 PM (0HooB)

107 Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 07:17 PM (MNq6o) Wellston, Mo. It's an...unpleasant place to be. Corruption has been the name of the game there for years.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 03:33 PM (HDwDg)

108 Interesting twitter account Empty Seats Galore ‏@EmptySeatsPics Washington Wizards game tonight. #NBA (http://instagram.com/p/mBhsRNpSiN/ ) pic.twitter.com/b3WnHXlPXL Empty Seats Galore ‏@EmptySeatsPics 23h Puck drop at the Panthers game tonight. #NHL (http://instagram.com/p/l-_3tbG3oQ/ ) pic.twitter.com/clkBR7VP7Z Empty Seats Galore ‏@EmptySeatsPics Mar 23 Crowd shot from Chicago Fire's home opener today. #MLS (http://instagram.com/p/l5XnnDsxCg/ ) pic.twitter.com/VScrkSzJGY Empty Seats Galore ‏@EmptySeatsPics Mar 22 New England Revolution's home opener today. #MLS (via @NESoccerJournal) pic.twitter.com/xIoS7B2TeD

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 26, 2014 03:34 PM (ZPrif)

109 Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2014 07:32 PM (qyfb5)who is Yee and where are you seeing this?

Allegations include fraud, illegal gun trafficking, gun trafficking to gangs, gun trafficking to terrorist cells, and a murder-for-hire scheme.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 03:34 PM (nqBYe)

110 90 The bad guy on Underdog grated on me so bad I couldn't watch. I couldn't stand his voice.
Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 07:28 PM (JdEZJ)
You mean Simon Bar Sinister? The voice sounded like an imitation of Lionel Barrymore.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 26, 2014 03:34 PM (/0PJL)

111 Tim Wilson nailed it on the flying 'stuff' we were promised. Too lazy to tinyurl a YouTube, but...

"Where the Fcuk is My Jetpack?!?"

You can get one today. It still has the same problem it's had for the last thirty years though. Fuel. You'll get 90 seconds of air time and like it, buddy.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 26, 2014 03:34 PM (2hTlI)

112 Also we're rockin' out over Yee getting arrested. Allegations include fraud, illegal gun trafficking, gun trafficking to gangs, gun trafficking to terrorist cells, and a murder-for-hire scheme.

And that's only part of the list, I'm expecting to find kiddie porn or kidnapping teenage girls for Mexican Cartels in there at some point. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith

Hahahahaha! And he helped write gun control legislation! Hahahahahaha!

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:34 PM (MNq6o)

113 "It's a shame that kids today don't get to experience the horror of only three channels." The true horror was being the youngest child, so you were effectively the remote control. That's why I think the advent of the remote control is the chief factor in the decline in birthrates in Western Civilization.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 26, 2014 03:34 PM (gBnkX)

114 "his boy Elroy"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 26, 2014 03:34 PM (HsTG8)

115 The flying car is electric. Hoo boy. I'll stay on the ground. I want something I can drive myself. Like a Boxster.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 03:34 PM (JdEZJ)

116 I'd rather have Cheetarah in a French Maid's Uniform, than Rosie.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 03:35 PM (Wz69H)

117 Any of you get the feeling something's not right ?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 26, 2014 03:35 PM (XWw96)

118 It's a liqueur, 70 proof, good over ice with a Guinness chaser, which I also just happen to have. Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 26, 2014 07:22 PM (0HooB) And here I was thinking Cochran was a Philistine. Hey, BC, you still here? You're off the hook. BB's got you covered.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 03:36 PM (yz6yg)

119 This is also why we should take western canada. Land bridge to Alaska.

"Land" is a relative term along the PNW according to Google Maps. This tells me that past North / West Vancouver you'll be spending most of your time waiting for ferries in the pouring rain. Or snow.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 03:36 PM (30eLQ)

120 116 I'd rather have Cheetarah in a French Maid's Uniform, than Rosie. Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 07:35 PM (Wz69H) this^^^

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 03:36 PM (GEICT)

121 Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 26, 2014 07:34 PM (ZPrif) Empty Seats Galore? Isn't she Pussy's second cousin?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 26, 2014 03:36 PM (HsTG8)

122 meet george jetson, his boy roy, daughter judy, jane his wife.

how long ago were we to have flying cars?

My name is El-Roy, not Roy, lady.

Posted by: Elroy Jetson, queen of the night[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 26, 2014 03:37 PM (2hTlI)

123 LOL @ the "sunshine coast highway" though.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 03:37 PM (30eLQ)

124 Terrafugia!!!

Posted by: the dyslexic who yells "terrafugia"! at March 26, 2014 03:37 PM (hn5v5)

125 But here's the to the future of my field, which apparently is going to be bullshit papers about bullshit topics that I want nothing to do with. :drinks: The demise of my chosen field has been documented here many times. Here's looking up your old address. :drinks:

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 03:37 PM (0HooB)

126 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 07:36 PM (yz6yg) We'd all drink the goodstuff if it were cheap my friend. Sometimes tastes gives way to "somebody left some Svedka here after a party"

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 03:37 PM (HDwDg)

127 Yea Bertram Simon Bar Sinister. Eccech. Underdog should have wasted him the first chance he had.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 03:37 PM (JdEZJ)

128 Krebs, well it has been .....Years.

elroy huh?
i'l try to remember next time i have to remember a theme from a toon.

which i hope is never.

now it keeps going through my head and i'm hmming

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 03:37 PM (nqBYe)

129 I've worked in IT for well over 25 years. I'd be happy with the "paperless" society I was promised in third grade. It's 2014 and my office still kills about an acre of trees every week.

Posted by: B at March 26, 2014 03:38 PM (6iEQd)

130 Sometimes tastes gives way to "somebody left some Svedka here after a party" Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 07:37 PM (HDwDg) There's cheap swill and then there's Maple booze.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 03:38 PM (GEICT)

131 Well, I was mostly joking about invading Canada. Mostly. Still want to build that land bridge to Cuba, though. And Baja California is rightfully ours. It's in the freakin name.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 26, 2014 03:39 PM (ZPrif)

132 and ya'll are shmarty pants with long memories

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 03:39 PM (nqBYe)

133 I already have a plan to cash in on that flying car. I'll make a video --

How To Hotwire A Terrafugia TF-X

It's sure to be a big seller.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 03:39 PM (wNF3N)

134 But I liked Captains Courageous. Just Simon I could not stand.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 03:39 PM (JdEZJ)

135 Not sure how it happened, but I've had four BLTs in three days.

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:39 PM (MNq6o)

136 Posted by: B at March 26, 2014 07:38 PM (6iEQd) When I worked for the IACUC, our "Electronic tracking system" required printouts. Mostly cause it sucked and the print outs were for when it'd lose data.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 03:39 PM (HDwDg)

137 Well, as far as hot cartoon chicks from the 60s go, Race Bannon's recurring love interest from Johnny Quest takes the cake. I can just tell she was naughty.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 26, 2014 03:39 PM (gBnkX)

138 132 and ya'll are shmarty pants with long memories Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:39 PM (nqBYe) No, we're just old and crotchety...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 26, 2014 03:39 PM (HsTG8)

139 112 Also we're rockin' out over Yee getting arrested.
Allegations include fraud, illegal gun trafficking, gun trafficking to
gangs, gun trafficking to terrorist cells, and a murder-for-hire scheme.
***

Gee, all that's missing in membership in MAIG.

Posted by: B at March 26, 2014 03:40 PM (6iEQd)

140 But here's the to the future of my field, which apparently is going to be bullshit papers about bullshit topics that I want nothing to do with. Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 07:30 PM (HDwDg) I expect someday soon to see a bioethicist write a paper entitled "Death as Life: Inside the Hermeneutic of Discontinuity"

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 03:40 PM (yz6yg)

141 And Baja California is rightfully ours. It's in the freakin name.

Been recommending the annexation of northern Mexico for years

... to Texas (Republic of).

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 03:40 PM (30eLQ)

142 "meet george jetson, his boy roy, daughter judy, jane his wife. how long ago were we to have flying cars?"

You can keep your flying cars. I want the goddamned Jetson ROBOT MAID. This crap with the "Roomba" cruising randomly around the floor is not cutting the mustard. I want beds made. And occasional sammiches.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 03:40 PM (noWW6)

143 I would hope the flying car would have some pretty high minimum standards to get a license.... Like minimum IQ of 130 and age minimum of 40. That's all we need is some testosterone laden rich kid under the influence of affluenza and god knows what else hitting the skyways to show off for his horrible friends.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 26, 2014 03:40 PM (jucos)

144 Well, as far as hot cartoon chicks from the 60s go, Race Bannon's recurring love interest from Johnny Quest takes the cake. Josie and the Pussycats. Lotta tails in the air in the back of that van.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 03:41 PM (Wz69H)

145 No wonder Yee was so "anti gun" it's just good business to move competitors out of the way. He just didn't count on holder being jellies.

Posted by: traye at March 26, 2014 03:41 PM (5m4Yl)

146 132 and ya'll are shmarty pants with long memories The good old days really were.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2014 03:41 PM (JdEZJ)

147 135 Not sure how it happened, but I've had four BLTs in three days. Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 07:39 PM (MNq6o) There are some who'd say that you've died and gone to heaven.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 26, 2014 03:41 PM (HsTG8)

148 I can't believe we used to watch that crap.

Posted by: Dang

Aw, come on, I loved Super Chicken! Admit it, it was pretty creative for its time.

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at March 26, 2014 03:41 PM (080XV)

149 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 07:40 PM (yz6yg) This particular paper was all about "doing justice to...intersex fetuses" In the theology section. Arguing that treatment for CAH was somehow "violence against the baby's identity" or some shit.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 03:42 PM (HDwDg)

150 We'd all drink the goodstuff if it were cheap my friend. Sometimes tastes gives way to "somebody left some Svedka here after a party" Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 07:37 PM (HDwDg) Yeah. UmmmmmmÂ…. I'm not that guy. I'd rather have one good beer than 2 30-packs of Bud Light. Too many years living in holes in the ground, and cinder block huts, eating shitty food and drinking worse coffee. Never going back.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 03:42 PM (yz6yg)

151 Uh you can drive to Alaska. The Al-Can highway.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 03:43 PM (RZ8pf)

152 The true horror was being the youngest child, so you were effectively the remote control. Two words: Rabbit ears. "Hey, hold them right there. No, the other position. OK, don't move." And naturally, you couldn't see the picture.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 03:43 PM (0HooB)

153 Domestic servant. Heh. I've never plooked a chrome plated machine that looks like a magical pig before.

Posted by: Stuff Frank Zappa sang at March 26, 2014 03:44 PM (JdEZJ)

154 "Too many years living in holes in the ground, and cinder block huts, eating shitty food and drinking worse coffee. Never going back." Whatever gets you to sleep at night.

Posted by: The Burnening Times at March 26, 2014 03:44 PM (gBnkX)

155 Whatever gets you to sleep at night. Posted by: The Burnening Times at March 26, 2014 07:44 PM (gBnkX) I believe that's Mrs. Bannion.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 03:44 PM (GEICT)

156 It came from today's Hollywood and you ask if it is something? Is John Ford still working? It is something, probably something like a flawed imitation of what we once called a "movie". I'm being a curmudgeon today. I have achieved the age that allows such behavior.

Posted by: Meremortal, something's burning... at March 26, 2014 03:44 PM (1Y+hH)

157 I'd rather have one good beer than 2 30-packs of Bud Light.

When I was a poor college student I splurged on two things. Bread and juice. As long as I had nice bread and juice to drink with my inexpensive meals, I didn't feel too poor.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 26, 2014 03:45 PM (o4Xc4)

158 Not sure how it happened, but I've had four BLTs in three days. Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 07:39 PM (MNq6o) I've taken to making mine 'Club Style'. Three Slices of Toasted Bread, Double Bacon, Double Tomato. (I add avocado to every 3rd one or so.)

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 03:45 PM (Wz69H)

159 who is Yee and where are you seeing this? Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:34 PM (nqBYe) fnord (nqBYe) First of all, {{hugs!}} Secondly, http://bit.ly/1eRyMnx It's CA State Senator Leland Yee, suntan lotion thief, purveyor of sex-for-hire, author of numerous gun control bills, and now apparently arms trafficker (and oh so much more). 26 people have been arrested, including Yee (who is out on $500k bail). His major partner was Keith Jackson, who is a major CA Democrat campaign fixer - this investigation may still have a lot of dirt to dig up on others.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 03:45 PM (qyfb5)

160 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 07:42 PM (yz6yg) 99 times out of 100 that's me. I'm the guy who orders soda at restaurants when they're tap lists consists of nothing but Bud products. 1 out 100 times I revert

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 03:45 PM (HDwDg)

161 Blade Runner was set in 2019 and they had flying cars. Somebody better get their ass in gear.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at March 26, 2014 03:45 PM (RycDZ)

162 JAAANNNNE!!! HOW DO YOU STOP THIS THING!!!!

Posted by: George Jetson at March 26, 2014 03:45 PM (aTXUx)

163 I was just thinking that traffic fatalities are starting to get dangerously low. Flying cars should fix that right up.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 26, 2014 03:45 PM (LiHKo)

164 This is exciting I've never plooked A tiny chrome-plated machine That looks like a magical pig With marital aids stuck all over it Such as yourself before

Posted by: Stuff Frank Zappa sang at March 26, 2014 03:46 PM (JdEZJ)

165 Vancouver is mainland Canada as well. Vancouver island, where Victoria is (go figure) is not. No ferry needed to Alaska. Unless you want to get there quicker.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 03:46 PM (RZ8pf)

166 I started the Judy Jetson Fan Club

Posted by: Roman Polanski at March 26, 2014 03:47 PM (aTXUx)

167 Aw, come on, I loved Super Chicken! Admit it, it was pretty creative for its time.
Posted by: Hobbitopoly

I was just shocked by how cheap (pun intended) it looked when I saw that open again.

Remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72rYHuWidSM

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:47 PM (MNq6o)

168 Buncha anti-Budites around here.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 03:47 PM (GEICT)

169 Sad news about the Boston fire, two firefighters are dead. Many others injured.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 03:47 PM (RZ8pf)

170 Mock my liver all you want. It turned into stone many years ago. When I die, I'm willing it to B'Gal to use as a doorstop.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 03:48 PM (0HooB)

171 In the theology section. Arguing that treatment for CAH was somehow "violence against the baby's identity" or some shit. Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 07:42 PM (HDwDg) You meant in the "theology" section. So much for "gender is a social construct," huh? There are no "interest" considerations when it comes to a fetus. I once took a final in Canon Law that asked, "Adam and Steve are freshman at the University of Massachusetts. One evening after a long day of drinking at their frat, they decided it would be fun to go get married. They went to the courthouse and got married. The next day a friend reminded them of what they had done, and they went to you, their priest, for advice on how to right the wrong. What is your advice?" Most of my peers wrote for like 45 minutes on that question citing the catechism and multiple coda of Canon Law, and a couple even parsing Latin in the origin St. Raymond of Penafort's Canon. Mine was something like, "It wasn't a marriage by definition, so you tell them to limit their alcohol intake and send them on their way." Who got the only "A" in the class? THIS GUY. Sometimes, theology is THAT simple.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 03:49 PM (yz6yg)

172 California's Society of Professional Journalists presented Senator Leland Yee with the Sunshine Award for legislative transparency last week.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 03:49 PM (qyfb5)

173 Terrafugazi should be named the Pegasses

Posted by: Ready fo Herankles! at March 26, 2014 03:49 PM (wu/TK)

174 George Jetson's flying car destroys the planet In order to combat the global menace of Climate Change, everyone will have Fred Flintstone cars Damn, I love the voices inside my head!

Posted by: John Kerry at March 26, 2014 03:50 PM (aTXUx)

175 Just got back. Flying cars, huh? Like there's not enough traffic problems.

Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2014 03:50 PM (VZ4v0)

176 Remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72rYHuWidSM

Posted by: Dang

YES! My favorite was Diaper Man! Maybe kids were just easier to entertain back then...

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at March 26, 2014 03:50 PM (080XV)

177 Blade Runner was set in 2019 and they had flying cars. Yeah but the steam-powered take-offs and landings were pretty lame.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 26, 2014 03:51 PM (gBnkX)

178 As long as I had nice bread and juice to drink with my inexpensive meals, I didn't feel too poor. Posted by: bonhomme at March 26, 2014 07:45 PM (o4Xc4) Ditto. Of course, those were the days when I was drinking "Duke Beer" $1.38 a six pack. The line drawing of John Wayne on the packaging also made for a lovely wall hanging. Not. Going. Back.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 03:51 PM (yz6yg)

179 It's nothing personal, it's just business.

Posted by: Michael Yee Corleone at March 26, 2014 03:51 PM (5m4Yl)

180 Mock my liver all you want. It turned into stone many years ago. When I die, I'm willing it to B'Gal to use as a doorstop. Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 26, 2014 07:48 PM (0HooB) Liver is stone. Drinking Jim Beam Maple. Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 03:52 PM (yz6yg)

181 172 California's Society of Professional Journalists presented Senator Leland Yee with the Sunshine Award for legislative transparency last week. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2014 07:49 PM (qyfb5) Can life in America get any more ridiculous?

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2014 03:52 PM (oMKp3)

182 I've taken to making mine 'Club Style'.

Three Slices of Toasted Bread, Double Bacon, Double Tomato.
(I add avocado to every 3rd one or so.) Posted by: garrett

Heck yeah. I had avocado on two of those and spinach (raw) on the last two. I think I need to try that club situation ya got there...

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:52 PM (MNq6o)

183 It doesn't really seem to give the driver that freedom that a real flyin' car does -- the ability to literally just pull off the road and take off into the sky on a whim. What? I want to be able to take off straight from the passing lane. Anything less is just plain ghey.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 03:52 PM (Wz69H)

184 This would have been a great Saturday morning thread...

Posted by: Spun and Murky at March 26, 2014 03:53 PM (4DCSq)

185 When I was a poor college student I splurged on two things. Bread and juice.
Too much information, dude! Yech!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 26, 2014 03:53 PM (hn5v5)

186 So the prophecies in Back to the Future 2 are close to being proven true- self lacing sneakers, hover boards, flying cars. But they were waaaayyy off about continued Japanese dominance. Whatever happened to them?

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 26, 2014 03:53 PM (LiHKo)

187 They got Leland Yee all because they finally got chinatown gangster Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, I wish I was making that name up, but I'm not. Third California state senator to get in trouble with the law this year.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 26, 2014 03:53 PM (WdbF7)

188 172 that's awesome. I may have to call a doctor after four hours.

Posted by: traye at March 26, 2014 03:53 PM (5m4Yl)

189 Anybody else see that security guard was photographed agai asleep on the job at the WTC? This time he was fired, union notwithstanding. Turns out he is blind in 1 eye and has nerve damage in his other. And his first name is Abdul. Top men guard our terror targets. Top. Men.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 03:54 PM (RZ8pf)

190 Merovign, *hugs* back,

numerous gun control bills?!

while arming the scum of the worlds citizens? (Like the doj?)

so i guess those are the civilian armies dem types need in the future/
really it's so weird i'd think we're trippin and making stuff up!

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 03:54 PM (nqBYe)

191 Judy Jetson in a Spacekini Flying Car Thread Compliance Pic http://tinyurl.com/m6hh6ae

Posted by: kbdabear at March 26, 2014 03:54 PM (aTXUx)

192 Of course, those were the days when I was drinking "Duke Beer"

$1.38 a six pack.

The line drawing of John Wayne on the packaging also made for a lovely wall hanging.

Not. Going. Back.

In the camps, you'll be drinking fermented yak snot. And having seconds.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 03:54 PM (wNF3N)

193 Can life in America get any more ridiculous?

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2014 07:52 PM (oMKp3)

------------------------------------------

With the people we have in charge now? Oh yes. Yes it can.

Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2014 03:55 PM (VZ4v0)

194 California's Society of Professional Journalists presented Senator Leland Yee with the Sunshine Award for legislative transparency last week. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith

My schadenboner is like a... a diamond. A diamond I tell ya!

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 03:55 PM (MNq6o)

195 Terrafugazi should be named the Pegasses Posted by: Ready fo Herankles! at March 26, 2014 07:49 PM (wu/TK) fnord (wu/TK) Peg's ass looks way better than that.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 03:55 PM (qyfb5)

196 mm love avocado.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 03:56 PM (nqBYe)

197 Grammie winger, I refer you to my comment @189. Yes, yes America can get more ridiculous.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 03:56 PM (RZ8pf)

198 Oh, "splurged".
Never mind.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 26, 2014 03:56 PM (hn5v5)

199 In the camps, you'll be drinking fermented yak snot. And having seconds. Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 07:54 PM (wNF3N) Remember the password for the camps. "The blumpkin rides at dawn" Remember. Pass it on.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 03:56 PM (yz6yg)

200 The third slice of toast adds structural integrity. It lets you add a lot more bacons and tomato. You can read about it in my upcoming book : Sandwich Ergonomics.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 03:57 PM (Wz69H)

201 "So the prophecies in Back to the Future 2 are close to being proven true- self lacing sneakers, hover boards, flying cars. But they were waaaayyy off about continued Japanese dominance." That's not all. Where my Mr. Fusion damnit?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 26, 2014 03:57 PM (gBnkX)

202 Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 07:56 PM (RZ8pf) I saw that. What a country. Uff da.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2014 03:57 PM (oMKp3)

203 Murder for hire and terrorist gun running. He MAY win corrupt democrat Heisman of 2014, at least he will be a finalist.

Posted by: traye at March 26, 2014 03:57 PM (5m4Yl)

204 so i guess those are the civilian armies dem types need in the future/ really it's so weird i'd think we're trippin and making stuff up! Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:54 PM (nqBYe) fnord (nqBYe) If anything, we undersell the seriousness in an attempt to be taken seriously by unserious people.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 03:57 PM (qyfb5)

205 Can life in America get any more ridiculous?
Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2014 07:52 PM (oMKp3)

at times i think
inexplicable
then absurd
then surreal
then i think perhaps i've lost my mind and i'm experiencing this strange country that i used to consider myself a part of as having a coup of some sort.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 03:57 PM (nqBYe)

206 Tom Slick and Super Chicken were bundled with George of the Jungle.

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 03:58 PM (8MjqI)

207 PG: "Al-Can highway"

The point was, how easiest to drive from the Lower 48 to Alaska? The Pacific Coast is right out, it's like driving up the coast of Norway.

Best I can tell, you'd have to drive all the way around the coast, to Prince George, then west to Prince Rupert and then have to take a ferry anyway to get to the closest part of Alaska.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 03:58 PM (30eLQ)

208 193 Can life in America get any more ridiculous?
Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2014 07:52 PM (oMKp3)
***

What uuuuup?

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 26, 2014 03:58 PM (6iEQd)

209 Give me the Chromium Cob.

Posted by: Cy Borg at March 26, 2014 03:58 PM (JdEZJ)

210 Too much information, dude! Yech!

Who peed on your Kinder Egg?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 26, 2014 03:58 PM (o4Xc4)

211 Judy Jetson was hot. But she got around. Total starfucker, too. Seems like the kind of cartoon girl who'd give you a case of something you couldn't erase.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 03:58 PM (Wz69H)

212 203 Murder for hire and terrorist gun running. He MAY win corrupt democrat Heisman of 2014, at least he will be a finalist. Posted by: traye at March 26, 2014 07:57 PM (5m4Yl) Dem presidential nominee in 2016

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 03:59 PM (GEICT)

213 They got Leland Yee all because they finally got chinatown gangster Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, I wish I was making that name up, but I'm not. Third California state senator to get in trouble with the law this year. Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 26, 2014 07:53 PM (WdbF7) fnord (WdbF7) Third *felony* indictment of a State Senator. In California. All Democrats, of course. They will have a hard time keeping their propped up faux gubernatorial candidate in the news now.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 03:59 PM (qyfb5)

214 What uuuuup? Posted by: Barack Obama at March 26, 2014 07:58 PM (6iEQd) Is there any truth to the rumor that Budweiser is going to revive the "Whazzzzzzup?!" ad campaign with Obama as the star once he leaves office?

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 03:59 PM (yz6yg)

215 But they were waaaayyy off about continued Japanese dominance. Whatever happened to them?

They went otaku. They decided it was more fun to beat off than to have sex with hot Japanese chicks.

I don't get it either.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:00 PM (30eLQ)

216 Merovign, well it is srsly crazytown and trying to explain how crazytown these people are sounds fkn crazy!

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 04:00 PM (nqBYe)

217 Man the posts are flying like ghost bullets around here.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 04:00 PM (qyfb5)

218 There hasn't been one single decent cartoon since Deppity Dawg.

Posted by: Vincent Van Gopher at March 26, 2014 04:01 PM (JQuNB)

219 Judy was all hot for some Dash Riprock lookalike. Spacepuddinpanties.

Posted by: Cy Borg at March 26, 2014 04:01 PM (JdEZJ)

220 Is there any truth to the rumor that Budweiser is going to revive the "Whazzzzzzup?!" ad campaign with Obama as the star once he leaves office? Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 07:59 PM (yz6yg) I'm thinking the Venn diagram of people drinking Bud and people who like DogEater McShanksALot probably looks like this: O O

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 04:01 PM (GEICT)

221 Merovign, well it is srsly crazytown and trying to explain how crazytown these people are sounds fkn crazy! Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 08:00 PM (nqBYe) fnord (nqBYe) They're kookoobananas, and just trying to *describe* them makes you sound like you are too! It's nuts!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 04:01 PM (qyfb5)

222 They decided it was more fun to beat off than to have sex with hot Japanese chicks.

I've heard that Japanese pr0n features chicks who cry during secks. Maybe that put them off?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 26, 2014 04:02 PM (o4Xc4)

223 Flyin' High Speed Rail video in nood thread.

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 04:02 PM (sdi6R)

224 Nood sleeping Union person up

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 26, 2014 04:03 PM (ojnk6)

225 A 137-page criminal complaint charges a total of 26 people Â— including Yee and Chow Â— with a panoply of crimes, including firearms trafficking, money laundering, murder-for-hire, drug distribution, trafficking in contraband cigarettes, and honest services fraud.

Dibs!!!

Posted by: Columbia University at March 26, 2014 04:03 PM (6iEQd)

226 Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 26, 2014 07:49 PM (yz6yg) Oh the Sex/gender confusion was strong in this paper especially when the author tried to lump Kleinfelter's patients into the same group as CAH patients (even though a majority of Kleinfelter's patients may never know they have the chromosome disorder until well into their life.) So strike one. Then after the paper I raised my hand and said "you suggested that pharmacological therapy is "violence" but completely ignore the possible psychological harm through confusion that comes from telling a kid they have "no gender" care to explain why?" I got by "mumble, you're just not understanding...mumble." Again, 1st place

. I'd say I want out of the field, but I don't know where to go. So maybe that's not what I want. I dunno. Is it wrong to say "I just want to be happy again?"

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 04:03 PM (HDwDg)

227 Ghost bullets from ghost guns? Oh my. I'm expecting this dude not to make it to trial. They have some info on somebody important I'm sure.

Posted by: traye at March 26, 2014 04:03 PM (5m4Yl)

228 And Leland Yee was leading the charge against violent video games. My theory is that liberals have done so much to annihilate the family unit (a death through 1000 pieces of legislation since the 60s) that censoring violent/racist/sexually explicit content in music, movies and videogames is the only way to showcase their "family values" to the LIVs. Of course the methods they use are close to their own hearts: state coercion and censorship. Bunch of Stalinists.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 26, 2014 04:04 PM (LiHKo)

229 anyway the list grows of why i would love to find an obscure cave hidden from everyone, on an island no-one has ever been to.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 04:04 PM (nqBYe)

230 187 They got Leland Yee all because they finally got chinatown gangster Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, I wish I was making that name up, but I'm not. Third California state senator to get in trouble with the law this year. Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 26, 2014 07:53 PM (WdbF7) Shrimp Boy is a GREAT moniker.

Posted by: Pug-De-Da! at March 26, 2014 04:04 PM (vFh9Q)

231 Looks to me like Forrest "Gump" Lew was moving in on their turf.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 04:05 PM (30eLQ)

232 >>>They went otaku. They decided it was more fun to beat off than to have sex with hot Japanese chicks. Isn't " hot Japanese chicks" an oxymoron?

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 04:06 PM (8MjqI)

233 Yee? That douche.
Mister Wu never got caught.

Posted by: al swearengen at March 26, 2014 04:06 PM (hn5v5)

234 I'm thinking the Venn diagram of people drinking Bud and people who like DogEater McShanksALot probably looks like this: O O Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2014 08:01 PM (GEICT) What do you think the Venn Diagram for people who drink Colt 45 and who like Obama looks like?

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 26, 2014 04:06 PM (yz6yg)

235 Willow we've moved on. Come on Robinson Crusoe.

Posted by: Cy Borg at March 26, 2014 04:07 PM (JdEZJ)

236 Oh my. I'm expecting this dude not to make it to trial. They have some info on somebody important I'm sure. Posted by: traye at March 26, 2014 08:03 PM (5m4Yl) fnord (5m4Yl) The top guesses seem to be: 1) Kills self 2) Murdered, made to look like #1 3) Flees the country Apparently he talked to undercover about not being happy with his life and wanting to leave the country and live in hiding. Timing is everything, Mr. Yee.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 04:08 PM (qyfb5)

237 Also posted on new thread: Re: CA Senator Yee's arrest: http://bit.ly/1dwCODR

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 04:10 PM (qyfb5)

238 222 They decided it was more fun to beat off than to have sex with hot Japanese chicks. I've heard that Japanese pr0n features chicks who cry during secks. Maybe that put them off?" In all seriousness it is hard for Japanese men to start families when they are working 90 hours a week with no overtime. Once you are hired, your ass belongs to the company. This has created massive demographic problems and retarded their economic growth for the past two decades. They've basically been in a perpetual recession for 20 years. This is why I don't worry about China. Look at Japan's demographic problems created by societal expectations and then multiply that by 100X for China. In 30 years China is fucked when they realize they've birth controlled or aborted away 400 million workers through state policy. Their economy will implode and there's nothing they can do about.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 26, 2014 04:11 PM (LiHKo)

239 Apparently he talked to undercover about not being happy with his life and wanting to leave the country and live in hiding.

Timing is everything, Mr. Yee.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2014 08:08 PM (qyfb5)

er, may i add i'm not named Yee, and not a guy!

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 04:11 PM (nqBYe)

240 >>> My life is awful. First world problems? But hopefully your attentiveness to the blog and your kvetching over Saturday morning cartoons means you are feeling better! Never watched the Hercules show; was he like Lion-O? I couldn't stand that guy. Cheetarah was my homegirl. And the weird cat dragon thing.

Posted by: LizLem at March 26, 2014 04:12 PM (Ri+tH)

241 The point was, how easiest to drive from the Lower 48 to Alaska? The Pacific Coast is right out, it's like driving up the coast of Norway. Best I can tell, you'd have to drive all the way around the coast, to Prince George, then west to Prince Rupert and then have to take a ferry anyway to get to the closest part of Alaska. Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 07:58 PM (30eLQ) You cannot drive up the coast. No roads. A few miles past Powell River, the highway ends, and you can't reach Powell River without taking two ferries. The coast is very rugged, with deep-water fjords that runs dozens of miles inland. There is a "marine highway" that runs from Seattle to Alaska, IIRC. That might be the easiest way to go, but the Alcan Highway is all paved now, and has some awesome scenery, so there's that. Oh, and flying cars? Fuggedaboudit. Do you honestly think any regulatory agency would allow you to simply zoom off into the sky from a freeway clogged after some illegal alien spilled his unsecured load of cantaloupes? No way. It hatwould be unsafe for all concerned, and might cause rubberneckers to have more wrecks. And just how ready are you to trust your life to engine power alone. That VTOL job is hanging on its propellers until it gets high enough to transition into forward flight, at which point its stubby little wings become "somewhat" useful. One engine dies, and you drop like a million-dollar rock, splat! The inherent weakness of roadable airplanes, and there have been a few, is that they are neither a very good car, nor a very good airplane, and cost more than a good car and a good airplane together.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2014 04:40 PM (yDmQD)

242 How did I miss this thread?

Posted by: toby928© insists on talking about robots at March 26, 2014 05:02 PM (QupBk)

243

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 27, 2014 01:02 AM (T2V/1)

244 Fighting for his life!
With a rubber knife!

With the strength of ten!
Plastic army men!!

Jerkuleeze!

Youth: I miss it so....

Posted by: Troll Feeder at March 27, 2014 04:47 AM (YOP13)

245 >>> My life is awful.

Could have been worse. At least your parents didn't force feed you Kaboom! cereal while making you watch those second rate cartoons featured only on UHF stations. Oh, wait....

Posted by: mark asread at March 27, 2014 08:54 AM (CtjOo)

Hide Comments | Add Comment | Refresh | Top

Comments are disabled. Post is locked.

180kb generated in CPU 0.1102, elapsed 0.2411 seconds.
64 queries taking 0.2135 seconds, 373 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.